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PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
Write the order for patterns separate 
from other matter, give bust measure 
and pattern number, and inclose 10 cents. 
Each pattern is complete with instruc¬ 
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6789. Ladies’ Waist with Fancy Collar. 
Flowered challis, violets on a cream 
ground, is here daintily decorated with 
Valenciennes lace. The collar, which is 
removable, is of creamy mull edged with 
a frill of lace, headed by insertion. A 
stock of violet ribbon is tied in a bow 
at the back of the neck, and a belt to 
match is tied in a bow in front. The 
standing collar has flaring laps of lace 
and insertion joined on at the top. The 
full lower edges are usually worn under 
the skirt, but may be belted over it if so 
preferred. Pattern No. 6789 is cut in 
sizes for 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust 
measure. 
A PLEA FOR THE POTATO. 
A WRITER in the Medical Record 
considers the desirable qualities 
of the potato. lie says that the fact 
that it contains very little nitrogen, is 
no reason to condemn it, for we are 
prone to have a dietary of too concen¬ 
trated foods, and the system demands 
bulk for the proper intestinal action as 
well as for nourishment. Here the potato 
is most useful. It would be unlit for 
the sole diet, as such large quantities 
would be required to satisfy at all the 
demands of the body, which even then 
0789-LADIfcS’ WAIST WITH FANCY 
COLLAR. 
would not be perfectly nourished ; but 
combined with nitrogenous substances, 
it is a valuable food when properly 
cooked. It contains less starch than 
rice, peas, lentils, etc., so is less harmful 
than they where starch is objectionable 
in the dietary. Again, it has less woody 
fiber than the other underground vege¬ 
tables, which is, of course, in its favor 
from the digestive point of view. 
It seems like a sweeping injustice to 
ascribe American dyspepsia to the 
humble potato. It certainly has not 
made a nation of dyspeptics of the Irish 
—and they have given it a severe test— 
and it seems unlikely that it would 
make any race distinction and discrimi¬ 
nate against us. Plaiuly American dys¬ 
pepsia must seek for some other cause 
than the potato per se. 
When fried, warmed over, or trans¬ 
formed into Saratoga chips, croquettes, 
or any of the many indigestible things 
that modern cookery has devised, it is 
objectionable, but what food would not 
be ? Even when baked or boiled, it is 
also objectionable unless the cooking be 
properly done, and the fact that it so 
seldom is properly done, is, doubtless, the 
cause of much that is said against it; 
but do let us lay the blame where it be¬ 
longs, and remedy the evil by teaching 
our cooks how to prepare it properiy, 
not by eliminating it entirely or even 
partially from our tables. 
Shorn of details, an incident that sev¬ 
eral years ago occurred in the writer’s 
family, may be cited in this matter. The 
baby girl of the household, when a little 
over a year old, began to refuse her 
food. In spite of tonics and a change to 
country air, this state continued. Many 
different foods were tried, and all that 
eminent medical skill could do or sug- 
g e s t was unavailing. Concentrated 
nourishment and stimulants kept the 
spark of life flickering, but even these 
were failing. Her temperature was be¬ 
low normal, and death’s finger seemed 
already laid upon the wasted baby 
frame, and death was coming through 
starvation—starvation in the midst of 
all the foods that modern science had 
given us. Finally, with death as the 
alternative, the physician said: “Take 
her to the table, and if there is anything 
that she will eat, give it to her.” And 
she did eat a little mashed potato !—the 
first food that she had taken willingly 
for a month. This was the turning 
point. The convalescence was very slow 
but sure, and all through it potatoes 
were her only food, except such small 
quantities of other foods as could be 
mixed with them without affecting 
their flavor perceptibly. Gradually she 
began to take a little milk and other 
things, and health returned perma¬ 
nently. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Why Not? —Miss should be changed 
into Mrs. when the school girl buds into 
womanhood, just as Master is changed 
to Mr. when the school boy becomes a 
man, argues a writer in the Westmin¬ 
ister Review. This writer argues as did 
Harriet Martineau, that it is not dignified 
to address a middle-aged woman as Miss, 
and that marriage should have nothing 
to do about the matter in the case of 
women any more than it has in the case 
of men. It would sound a little strange 
to speak of Master David 13. Hill, or dur¬ 
ing his first campaign, of Master Grover 
Cleveland. 
Wastefulness. —Why do poverty and 
wastefulness almost invariably go hand 
in hand ? One of our tenants complained 
in the cold weather, that she had to go 
almost without shoes ; they were so 
poor it was all they could do to buy 
things to eat. When the surroundings 
came to be cleaned after they moved 
out, there was found a tobacco pail full 
of pancakes, quite an amount of cookies, 
etc., and nearly whole loaves of bread, 
besides many garments which had, evi¬ 
dently, blown from the line unnoticed, 
and been hidden by the snow. I heard 
one woman tell of taking a 25-pound 
flour sack full of dry bread from the 
cupboard when she cleaned a house. 
SWEET FEKN. 
Stories for Children. —The instincts 
of children are a tolerably safe guide, 
says T. W. Iligginson in Harper’s Bazar. 
Where was there ever a child who did 
not prefer a true story to a fictitious 
one, if it were—what rarely happens— 
as well given. The tales told by the 
hunter, the old sailor, the Indian fighter, 
need no spice of fiction to make them 
fascinating. Test the preference. Tell 
the best story you can invent, and when 
the child asks the unfailing “ But is it 
really true?” answer, “No.” Is not 
your hearer disappointed? But if jou 
are able to answer conscientiously, “Yes, 
my dear child, that very thing actually 
happened to your revered Uncle Abner, 
or your excellent Aunt Rachel,” the 
child goes to sleep happy, and awakens 
to find life newly glorified by the posses¬ 
sion of such gifted relatives. Truth, as 
truth, is never unwelcome, but the con¬ 
trary ; the difference is in the telling. 
There is a realm, no doubt, for the pure 
play of the imagination—Robin Hood 
and Roland and King Arthur; neither 
would I ever deny a child Santa Claus or 
Jack the Giant-killer. But 1 remain in 
the belief that truth is greater and pro¬ 
founder than any fiction, however ideal 
or however realistic. As now the school¬ 
boy will turn even from Oliver Optic to 
The Boys of ’76, or Baron Trenck’s 
MOTHERS. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Ado. 
Memoirs, so I think that for our descend¬ 
ants, history and biography will be 
written with such spirit and skill as 
shall displace the carnival of the roman¬ 
tic. If that day be delayed, it is only 
because telling the truth is the higher 
art, and so develops more slowly. 
CRUMBS FROM DIFFERENT TABLES. 
To all labor wrought for human good 
Is due an equal meed of fame— 
Between making laws and sawing wood, 
The only difference is in the name— 
Who robs it of its hard-earned pelf 
By a cuuniue trick or legal role, 
Will in the end but rob himself— 
He may cheat the gallows but not the goal. 
— M. E. Pleas in Indianapolis Sun. 
.... Phillips Brooks : “ Only he who 
puts oq the garment of humility finds 
how worthily it clothes his life.” 
-Wm. H. Hill in Ladies’ Home 
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caresses.” 
... .Atchison Globe : “ Every girl learns 
a lot of nonsense from her mother that 
she passes on down to her own daugh¬ 
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it.” 
-Alice B. Tweedy in Popula r Science 
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violent hands on woman’s former em¬ 
ployments—cutting children’s garments 
by machinery, baking, pickling, and 
preserving for the nation—it is inconceiv¬ 
able that woman, industrious woman, 
should fold her hands and sit in a 
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